"The World is Too Much With Us"

The last poem  that we have read in class is titled "The World is Too Much With Us" and that is what I chose to discuss in this entry's blog.
This poem is a Petrarchan sonnet that explains the materialistic world that we indulge our selves into today. It laments the loss of nature in the modern society as it states how we receive all that nature has to offer us, but then turn around and give our hearts away.  In his poem, Wordsworth implements the usage of metaphors and states that "We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!" meaning that due to our selfishness and greed, we have given away our hearts, something so precious and clean, a blessing granted to humankind.  We are not very appreciative of the benefits of life and take our blessings for granted.  In another line, Wordsworth states that "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" meaning that we waste our time and knowledge that we were given, due to our mentality of "getting and spending".  As humans we have a purpose, but we separate ourselves from "God created" nature which results in us separating ourselves from God, therefore wasting our powers. The juxtaposition of several words such as "late and soon" and "getting and spending" displays the contradiction of materialism.  It is a destructive and corrupt blessing that may seem to bring pleasure but in reality, feeds mankind's worst quality, greed.  The overall message of the poem is that people forget to appreciate the beauty of nature because of their quest for materialistic possessions. Every aspect of life today pushes us further and further away from our true nature as human beings and closer towards a state of corrupt living.